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Course Descriptions
College 101 10890101 Students gain skills that lead to success in college, employment, and life. Students should take this course in their first semester.( Pre-requisite: None.) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
EMR / EMT 1 30531100 Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Intro to Firefighting 10503189 Course Typically Offered: Fall
HazMat Awareness & Ops 10503153 This course examines characteristics relating to hazardous materials including problems of recognition and mitigation. Prepares students to Hazardous Materials Technician Level for certification.( Corequisites: 10-503-142, Fire Fighting Principles; OR Firefighter I State Certification) Course Typically Offered: Fall
EMT 2 30531101 Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Fire Fighting Principles 10503142 Basic fire behavior, techniques for control structural, related fire emergencies, life safety practices; covers practical evolutions necessary to control and extinguish fires; satisfies all requirements for Firefighter 1 state certification.( Prerequisite: Acceptance to Fire Science, Fire Medic or Fire Protection Technician program; Corequisite: 10-503-153, Hazardous Material Operations) Course Typically Offered: Fall
Fire Protection Hydraulics 10503194 Provides a foundation of knowledge in order to understand the principles of the use of water in fire protection. Meets all of the requirements for the Driver Operator-Pumper certification with the State of Wisconsin.( Corequisite: 10-804-113, College Technical Math 1A) Course Typically Offered: Spring
Bldg Const for Fire Protection 10503143 Provides the components of building construction that relate to fire and life safety. Course Typically Offered: Spring
College Technical Math 1A 10804113 Topics include solving linear equations; graphing; percent; proportions; measurement systems; computational geometry; and right triangle trigonometry. Emphasis will be on the application of skills to technical problems.( Prerequisite: GPA greater / equal to 2.6; OR Next Gen Arithmetic score greater / equal to 250 AND Rdg score greater / equal to 250; OR ACT Math score greater / equal to 15 AND ACT Rdg score greater / equal to 15; OR preparatory courses-contact an academic advisor 920-498-5444) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Mathematical Reasoning 10804134 All college students, regardless of their college major, need to be able to make reasonable decisions about fiscal, environmental, and health issues that require quantitative reasoning skills. An activity based approach is used to explore numerical relationships, graphs, proportional relationships, algebraic reasoning, and problem solving using linear, exponential and other mathematical models. Students will develop conceptual and procedural tools that support the use of key mathematical concepts in a variety of contexts. This course may be used as the first of a two part sequence that ends with Quantitative Reasoning as the capstone general education math requirement.( Prerequisite: GPA greater / equal to 2.6; OR Next Gen Arith score greater / equal to 250 AND Rdg score greater / equal to 250; OR ACT Math score greater / equal to 15 AND ACT Reading score greater / equal to 15; OR prep courses-contact an academic advisor 920-498-5444). Course Typically Offered:
Firefighter-Level 2 10503730 Complete all Level 2 firefighter objectives as identified by NFPA consistent with Wisconsin Technical College System Board defined standards that comply with ILHR regulations.( Prerequisite: 10-503-142, Fire Fighting Principles; 10-503-153, Hazardous Material Operations) Course Typically Offered: Spring
Heath & Wellness For Public Sa 10503118 A guide to a comprehensive occupational safety, health, and wellness program in a fire and emergency response organization. Course Typically Offered: Spring
Oral / Interpersonal Comm 10801196 This course focuses on developing effective listening techniques and verbal and nonverbal communication skills through oral presentation, group activity, and other projects. The study of self, conflict, and cultural contexts will be explored, as well as their impact on communication.( Prerequisite: GPA greater / equal to 2.6; OR Next Gen Rdg score greater / equal to 250 AND Writing score greater / equal to 237; OR ACT Rdg score greater / equal to 15 AND English score greater / equal to 15; OR preparatory course-contact an academic advisor at 920-498-5444) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Fire Safety and Survival 10503190 Course Typically Offered: Fall
Fire Prevention 10503151 Provides fundamental information regarding the history and philosophy of fire prevention, organization and operation of a fire prevention bureau, use of fire codes, and identification and correction of fire hazards. Meets all requirements for Fire Inspector 1 certification with the State of Wisconsin.( Prerequisites: Fire Fighting Principles 10-503-142 or 10-503-102 or Firefighter I State Certification and advanced standing in Firefighting Principles) Course Typically Offered: Fall
Fire Behavior and Combustion 10503195 Explores the theories and fundamentals of how and why fires start, spread, and are controlled( Prerequisite: 10-503-142, Firefighting Principles; 10-503-191, Principles of Emergency Service) Course Typically Offered: Fall
Intro to Sociology 10809196
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